Senior Legal Counsel

Hummgroup is one of Australasia's most successful and enduring fintech organisations with a proud legacy of rewriting the playbook for digital spending.We help people buy everything, everywhere, every day. Our product ecosystem of buy now pay later, credit cards, and business financing products has been designed around the core needs of today's shoppers, retailers, and small and medium enterprises.

What's so exciting about this role?

Sitting within the Legal andComplianceteam, where you will be responsible for driving a "
Culture of excellence"
in legal risk management, governance and compliance across hummgroup and ensuring that the legal &
regulatory Frameworks are properly embedded with appropriate training and education.

What Does An Average Day Look Like?

No day isaverageathummbut here's an idea of what you can expect to do in this role:

• Take on the accountability for all transactional and project based legal, governance and compliance requirements for the relevant internal hummgroup Business Units that the role supports
• Responsible in the ongoing embedding and management of the hummgroup legal and regulatory risk management process acrossthe group.
• Directly support the Chief Legal &
  Commercial Officer and other material project based and discrete activities in support of the hummgroup strategic framework.
• Deep knowledge of the Australian consumer credit and privacy regimes, with experience in supporting businesses manage and deliver compliant products, initiatives, and other projects
• Provide high quality technical legal, governance and compliance advice and assistance across all levels of an organisation (Executive Team and broader organisation) which takes into account relevant commercial objectives
• Develop, initiate, maintain and revise core policies and procedures to ensure the effective operation of the hummgroup legal risk management and compliance Frameworks and all associated activities

Who will thrive in this role?

You are customer obsessed and want to make a difference in their lives. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are not afraid to challenge the status quo. You are a visionary leader who will roll up your sleeves to get things done.

We are also looking for someone who brings:

• A dynamic and pro-active approach to the role and is able to develop and maintain deep "
  Trusted legal advisor"
  relationships across hummgroup. This is because the hummgroup culture is fast paced, high achieving and evolving quickly through a range of organic and in-organic activities and initiatives under the hummgroup strategic framework
• Has a "
  Best in market"
  approach as the Senior Legal Counsel will be a critical hire in the development of a legal risk management and compliance environment which is robust, proportionate, and effective
• Ability to pro-actively track the external legislative and regulatory environment, codes of practice and other requirements relevant and necessary to ensure that the hummgroup remains compliant and is able to "
  Early identify"
  regulatory focus areas and to pro-actively respond to relevant legislative or regulatory changes or risk issues
• Capability to manage complex investigations, including in respect of actual or suspected violations of legislation, regulations, policies, and procedures with limited supervision
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to draft with limited supervision, complex regulatory submissions and responses and all other relevant internal and external communications and correspondences
• Strong leadership capabilities and a demonstrated ability to operate independently and autonomously across a wide range of projects and activities and to influence stakeholders to ensure that the hummgroup legal risk management and hummgroup Compliance Framework is recognised within such projects and activities
• LLB or another equivalent legal accreditation
• 5+ years' post-admission experience in a relevant financial services compliance environment (including private practice coupled with some in-house / secondment experience)

And did we mention that we are working in a super-fast-paced environment where change is the only constant?We really mean it so experience working at pace is essential. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you